Need a mummified bat? Shopping around for ghost hunting equipment, serial killer-related memorabilia, or creepy, ancient medical equipment? Gina Marie’s Antiques, Oddities, & Curiosities – which gets my vote for the strangest shop in Shreveport-Bossier – is your one-stop shop for all things macabre, dark, and strange. It’s not going to …
Update: Hi, folks! It looks like the segment on Herby-K’s did not make the final cut of the show that aired, though it was used in commercials promoting the episode. I apologize for promoting that Herby-K’s would be featured on the show – I assumed that the segment would air, …
Photography Note: Photos are by post author Chris Jay, who asks that you excuse the low quality of the images – he wasn’t expecting to stumble upon a 1930s soda fountain, and wasn’t carrying a good camera at the time. In Louisiana, if you walk through enough doors, you’re bound …
(Editor’s Note: Occasional 20×49.com guest bloggers, Molly McCombs and her husband, Randall Ross, are wildly enthusiastic about the estate sale scene in Shreveport-Bossier. I asked Molly if she would share the story of a favorite local estate sale find, as well as some tips on how to get started. Molly …
Each September, book lovers from Shreveport-Bossier and the surrounding communities turn out in droves to dig through tens of thousands of used books at the Centenary College Book Bazaar. The 27th Annual Centenary College Book Bazaar, which will be held, Sept. 6-7, 2013, will feature more than 80,000 books and …
As a life-long fan of garage sales, estate sales, junk shops and antique malls, one of my absolute favorite places on Earth is the Greenwood Flea Market in Greenwood, La. Located just off of Exit 5 on I-20, the Greenwood Flea Market consists of a very large, U-shaped indoor facility …
